Social media conferences seem to be sprouting up everywhere these days, but one conference consistently does an oustanding job of bringing in high-level people to explain how “big brands” — large corporations — are using social media in the enterprise: BlogWell. I attended the inaugural BlogWell, a joint venture of GasPedal and the Blog Council, […]
Photos of NetSquared
Here are 16 photos on Flickr I took at the NetSquared Global Conference held Tuesday and Wednesday at Cisco headquarters in San Jose. Pictured above is Chris Messina of OpenID, Citizen Agency and Flock fame; he gave a stirring presentation about the open social Web.
Celebrities: Use Twitter to do good
Recently the TV critic of the St. Petersburg Times asked for my thoughts about the migration of celebrities to Twitter over the past few months. Will it inevitably dumb down the service? Bring it into the mainstream? Make us want to move on to the Next Big Thing? Ashton Kutcher is closing in on 2 […]
Introducing Traveling Geeks London
One reason I’ve been overstretched for many months is that I’ve been working since last August as the (unpaid) chief organizer of the second Traveling Geeks expedition to explore cutting-edge technologies in a hotbed of innovation. Last spring it was Israel. This time around: London! On Sunday we launched the TravelingGeeks.com website using WordPress, and […]
BzzScapes: Passionate fans connect with brands
Today Boston-based word-of-mouth marketing firm BzzAgent takes the wrapping off a very interesting new venture: BzzScapes. Here’s my initial impression, after a 20-minute phone call Friday with BzzAgent founder and CEO Dave Balter (pictured at right): A “brands community” was a long time in coming, and I’m glad to see that BzzAgent has incorporated some […]